On 14 December 2012 10:26, Antoine Musso <hashar+...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 12/12/12 21:57, David Gerard a écrit :
>> If anyone owning a chunk of H.264 had a problem with Wikimedia doing >> things with H.264 in the US, it could only be bad for them. I would >> suggest this aspect isn't really a problem. > Morally I must agree. Legally I emit a huge doubt on this assumption. > We had the SCO - Linux affair [1] a few years ago where some "unknown" > company started sueing anyone using Unix based on copyright > infringement. It only takes one company and a bunch of lawyers to start > being sued. > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO–Linux_controversies I was thinking legally too, but yeah, danger of patent trolls on serving - I was thinking only of the big guys. Definitely one for WMF legal. Ingestion should be feasible outside the US, though, if accepting encumbered formats (e.g. anything a mobile phone records) is deemed a legal hazard. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
